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Offline The Rat

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French Vultee Vengeance torpedo bomber
« on: April 08, 2022, 09:42:39 AM »
Coming along in fits and starts, like all my victims projects. Decided to try one of those weird wild and wonderful freehand schemes that a lot of French aircraft got. With brushes it will look a little crisper, but I'm not shelling out for an airbrush just yet. The green is Model Master RAF Dark Green, the brown is unknown because the label fell off decades ago. They aren't perfectly accurate, maybe not even close, but MFM! Still needs touch up in areas, and maybe a few more blobs. The brown is gloss, but it will all be given a dull coat anyway.

by Dave Bailey, on Flickr
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: French Vultee Vengeance torpedo bomber
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2022, 09:55:41 AM »
MFM is the general rule of thumb for we whiffers! :smiley: ;)
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Offline apophenia

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Re: French Vultee Vengeance torpedo bomber
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2022, 10:15:34 AM »
Nice! Good start on an excellent subject  :smiley:
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Re: French Vultee Vengeance torpedo bomber
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2022, 02:59:20 AM »
Off to a good start
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Offline Buzzbomb

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Re: French Vultee Vengeance torpedo bomber
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2022, 06:36:36 AM »
The venerable Frog moulding ?

Either way, I like the idea, the aircraft is certainly big enough to lug a torpedo
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Offline Dr. YoKai

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Re: French Vultee Vengeance torpedo bomber
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2022, 08:11:37 AM »
 I've always liked the look myself - big and purposeful. The scheme will make for a very interesting whif!
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Offline The Rat

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Re: French Vultee Vengeance torpedo bomber
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2022, 09:17:38 AM »
Quote from: Buzzbomb on April 09, 2022, 06:36:36 AM
The venerable Frog moulding ?

Dat's da one!
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Offline Inactive II

Interesting...
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2022, 11:00:15 AM »
...The Vultee Model 72 (A-31) supposedly was in response to 1940 Armée de l'Air specifications for a single-engine dive-bomber so "historically appropriate" building models of them in early WWII French 3rd Republic livery more so since the Free French flew A-31 variants operationally in 1943 North Africa though not successfully. A favored "What-If"are WWII Douglas A-1 Skyraiders had Ed Heinemann designed the beast before 1940 as a fast, heavy-lift low-level ground attack aircraft in response to Luftwaffe Stukas, even bought an 1/72 Airfix AD-1 hoping to model that "What-If' but didn't get around build it, oh well... :( Skyraiders were employed for filming The Longest Day D-Day invasion reenactment so yes they did see WWII action albeit just on the 1962 Silver Screen ;)
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